Month: November 2018

The passenger airliner carrying 239 people disappeared without a trace four years ago and two huge international investigations have failed to recover it. Mr Boyer claims he has found satellite images that show the wreckage of MH370 after it crash-landed. He believes he can identify different parts of the broken plane in images found on

Astronomers have been able to get their closest, most detailed look yet at the first stages of a dying star – a supernova known as SN 2018oh – using a combination of super-powerful telescopes out in space and based here on Earth. This unprecedented look at the death throes of SN 2018oh (also labelled ASASSN-18bt),

This sundog captured in the city of Västeras, Sweden is just magic… And the Arch at the end of the video ist just transcendental! And here in pictures: From a sun pillar. Picture via Youtube video To a giant ARCH. Picture via Youtube video transcendental sundog! Picture via Youtube video Nature is magic. Picture via

A newly discovered asteroid designated 2018 WV1 will make a very close approach to our planet at 03:11 UTC on December 2, 2018. The object will flyby Earth at a distance of 0.09 LD / 0.00022 AU (32 911 km / 20 450 miles) – third closest this year. This object belongs to the Apollo

A large earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 struck Alaska near Anchorage on November 30, 2018, sending people fleeing from buildings and to safety beneath door jambs. The earthquake shook buildings violently, cracking up walls, damaging ceiling panels and flinging items off desks and walls. A M7.0 earthquake hit 13km (8 miles) North of

A strong and shallow earthquake registered by the USGS as M7.0 hit Anchorage, Alaska at 17:29 UTC (08:29 AKST) on November 30, 2018. The agency is reporting a depth of 42.8 km (29.9 miles). EMSC is reporting M7.0 at a depth of 45 km (28 miles). The quake was followed by M5.8 at 17:35 UTC.

Dutch Christian businessman Johan Huibers completed work on the life-size replica of Noah’s Ark in 2012 after raising the $5million needed to construct it. Building work began in 2008 and four years later, the full-sized replica was complete. Inside – like Noah’s Ark in the Bible story – there will be real animals including sheep

Motorists were stuck in traffic in the research town of Akademgorodok near Novosibirsk, Russia, when a strange light lit up the dark sky. The object, which was caught on several dash cam footages, appeared as a green fireball over the eastern European nation’s scientific city. It has led some to believe that Vladimir Putin is

A huge landslide, most probably related to mining activities in the area, has swallowed up several houses and cut off the main road in Jawa Village, Sanga Sanga District, Indonesia at around 02:00 p.m., on November 29, 2018. The major geological phenomenon is still going on. The ground continues to move and many houses may

A newly discovered asteroid designated 2018 WZ1 flew past Earth at a distance of 0.28 LD / 0.00073 AU (109 206 km / 67 857 miles) on November 27, 2018. This is the 70th known asteroid to fly by our planet within 1 lunar distance since the start of the year, including 2018 WV1 due

A dynamic Pacific storm is delivering heavy to excessive rainfall, mountain snow, gusty winds and high surf to California. This system will evolve into a major multi-faceted storm Friday through the weekend, with severe weather in the South and heavy snow in parts of the Midwest. Heavy rain and mountain snow is spreading across California and

The upcoming total lunar eclipse, often dubbed the Blood Moon, will paint the skies a menacing red colour over vast swathes of North and South America, Europe and parts of Africa. The Blood Moon is expected to peak on the night of January 21, 2019, marking the second anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Biblical

East Africa is famously the birthplace of humankind and the location where our ancient hominin ancestors first invented sophisticated stone tools. This technology, dating back to 2.6 million years ago, is then thought to have spread around Africa and the rest of the Old World later on. But new research, published in Science, has

A year ago today, Tesla’s big battery in South Australia began dispatching power to the state’s grid, one day ahead of schedule. By most accounts, the world’s largest lithium-ion battery has been a remarkable success. But there are some concerns that have so far escaped scrutiny. The big battery (or the Hornsdale Power Reserve,

We know that even a grain of dust or tiny droplet can damage a tough metal surface if the particle gathers up a high-enough speed when it smashes into it. But until now there’s been a problem figuring out how or why that damage happens. That’s because the speed has to be really freaking high,

With severe to extreme heatwave conditions set to continue and 144 bushfires still burning, Queensland authorities are warning people to remain on high alert into the weekend and next week. On November 30, 2018, Queensland firefighters are still battling 144 bushfires burning across the state which already saw 200 fires this week. The government rated the danger as

The Woolsey and Paradise wildfires brought widespread devastation to California in November, killing more than 90 people and torching 250,000 acres of land. With the fires now fully contained, residents have returned home to find nothing but scorched foundations. Officials are still on the hunt for hundreds of missing people – a process made more

Jumping spiders are already among the most adorable members of the arachnid order, but we’re ready to give them the prize, officially. A species of ant-mimicking jumping spider has just been found suckling its babies on milk. You know what else does that? Kitties. Doggos. Mousies. But Toxeus magnus is much more diligent than

If classic monster movies and old science experiments are to be believed, life begins with a spark. Not everybody is convinced by this kind of origin story, so the search continues for sources of energy capable of transforming a prebiotic soup into a life-generating dish. Maybe the secret ingredient isn’t anything more shocking than a

We need to talk about the dark ages. No, not those dark ages after the fall of the western Roman Empire. The cosmological dark ages. The time in our Universe, billions of years ago, before the formation of the first stars. And we need to talk about the cosmic dawn: the birth of those first

NASA’s next lunar science experiments will arrive at the Moon via a spacecraft built by one of nine private companies – a first for one of the agency’s science missions. In an announcement Thursday, the space agency named the organizations that are now eligible to bid on delivering science and technology payloads to the lunar

A mild strombolian activity accompanied by a lava flow is taking place at Mount Etna, Italy since November 28, 2018. The explosions are happening at the New Southeast Crater and are still very small. According to INGV’s Boris Behncke, Etna’s current activity is quite small and absolutely harmless, but very beautiful. However, compared to a few

A bright green fireball was recorded streaking through the early morning sky over southern Hungary at 04:10 UTC on November 29, 2018. The event lasted up to 4 seconds and was recorded by numerous web cameras located in Austria. The International Meteor Organization (IMO) has so far received only 4 reports. If you witnessed this

A bright meteor was recorded streaking through the night sky over Toronto, the capital of Canadian province of Ontario at around 02:15 UTC on November 29, 2018. The event lasted several seconds. The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 85 reports by 23:00 UTC. The event was seen over New York, NY and Ontario, Canada. The trajectory

The vast area of the western US that is made up of three points between the desert state and California – Reno, Las Vegas and Fresno – and equates to half the size of England. One of the most famous cases of a plane disappearing was of billionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who had spent his

A powerful winter storm is affecting parts of eastern Canada, causing a massive power outage in Nova Scotia, high water levels and heavy pounding surf. At the peak of the storm, nearly 250 000 Nova Scotia Power customers were left without power, many of them in the Halifax area. It was Nova Scotia’s worst power outage since Hurricane “Juan” in September

A blood moon happens during a total lunar eclipse, when the Earth lines up between the moon and the sun, this hides the Moon from the sunlight. When this happens, the only light that reaches the Moon’s surface is from the edges of the Earth’s atmosphere. The air molecules from Earth’s atmosphere scatter out most

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished on March 8, 2014 with all 239 people passengers and crew while travelling from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing. The last known contact with the MH370 aircraft was about 38 minutes after take-off when it was passing over the South China Sea. One of the world’s biggest surface searches covering

Pontius Pilate’s name has been deciphered on a bronze ring found approximately 50 years ago during an archaeological dig at at the site of the Herodion fortress, built by Herod the King of Judea. The stamping ring was discovered by Professor Gideon Forster from the Hebrew University. Pilate was a Roman governor of Jerusalem in

International seismic networks detected an atypical very low frequency signal originating near the island of Mayotte just before 09:30 UTC on November 11, 2018. Signals of this type are characteristic of volcanic phenomena. A rare earthquake swarm started near the small Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, the oldest volcanic island in the Comoros Basin, at 05:14 UTC on May

Writing for the Near Death Experience Research Foundation website, the woman explained she had a severe allergic reaction when she was younger which led to heart failure. Identifying herself only as Rebecca, she said she technically died before paramedics had a change to reach her. During her brief moments in what she believes was the

Nearly 10,000 people have been told to flee immediately as more than 140 fast-moving blazes tear through Queensland amid the state’s bushfire crisis. Thousands of people were evacuated from communities in central Queensland after catastrophic fire conditions on Wednesday. About 140 bushfires were burning across an almost 2,000km stretch from Yungaburra, south of Cairns, to

A month in which five full weekends happen – consisting of Friday, Saturday and Sunday – is called “silver pockets full” in Chinese culture. It is supposed to bring good luck – as well as bundles of cash, as a result of the Chinese concept of feng shui. The news has been widely publicised on social media,

Experts and conspiracy theorists alike have been on the hunt for any semblance of evidence that life once existed on Mars. Now one prominent alien hunter believes he has discovered the elusive evidence. The UFO hunter has been perusing through NASA images from the space agency’s Martian rover, and believes he has found a fossil.

On the morning of November 11, just before 9:30 UT, a mysterious rumble rolled around the world. The seismic waves began roughly 15 miles off the shores of Mayotte, a French island sandwiched between Africa and the northern tip of Madagascar. The waves buzzed across Africa, ringing sensors in Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. They traversed

Bill Gates sees nuclear energy as a potential solution to lowering carbon-dioxide emissions around the world, and he has spent the past decade funding new ways to produce the energy in a safe, affordable way. About 10 years ago, Gates cofounded a company called TerraPower to build new kinds of nuclear reactors. TerraPower is

Have you ever stopped to wonder exactly how much light has been produced by all the stars in the Universe, over all the time that has passed? Well, now you can wonder no more. An international team of astronomers has actually calculated the amount of starlight in the cosmos. And it’s teaching us new

Scientists are at a loss to explain a strange seismic event that shook the planet on November 11 and was picked up by earthquake sensors stationed across the globe. While the cause of this mysterious disturbance remains unknown, it’s somehow linked to an ongoing seismic swarm that’s been rumbling the archipelago of Mayotte in the

Much like Egypt’s pharaohs, the emperors of China’s Western Han dynasty had a thing for being buried inside pyramids – although less recognisable than the iconic ones we know from places like Giza. Scattered along the outskirts of Xi’an along the banks of China’s Wei River, the sides of these burial mounds align with

Atomic clocks, based on the minute oscillations of atoms, are the most precise timekeeping devices humans have created. Every year, scientists make adjustments that improve the precision of these devices. Now, they’ve achieved new performance records, making two atomic clocks so precise they could detect gravitational waves, those faint ripples in the fabric of space-time.

The outer layer of the Earth, the solid crust we walk on, is made up of broken pieces, much like the shell of a broken egg. These pieces, the tectonic plates, move around the planet at speeds of a few centimetres per year. Every so often they come together and combine into a supercontinent,

This week, a Holstein by the name of Knickers captured the heart of the Internet by standing horns and shoulders above a herd of cattle on a farm in Australia. And there’s no arguing that the lad is large. At the shoulder, Knickers stands a mighty 6’4″ (193 centimetres), which means he’s two inches

In the land down under, sticking out in a crowd is rarely a good thing. Australians have a habit of cutting “tall poppies” down to size, frowning on those overachievers who are too big for their own boots. An exception has been made for Knickers the giant cow, long may he reign. Right now, Knickers

The outlandish assertion was made during an online video released by conspiracy YouTube channel ApexTV. “Noah”, who claims to be a time traveller from 2030, showed a map which purports to demonstrate how the US will look after devastating flooding. The so-called time traveller said it was proof of the devastating impact of climate change.

Could nature’s smallest organisms help us to combat rising CO2 levels and even oil spills? Strange as it might seem, the answer might be yes, with research into newly discovered deep-sea microbes suggesting these tiny critters possess a keen appetite for pollutants. The microbes – collected in the Gulf of California, around 2,000 metres

The illuminati does exist and was set up in the 18th century by Adam Weishaupt. The group began as a secret society initially with five members and was named the Order of Illuminati. The secret society wanted to free themselves from the church and restrictions of the government. Adam Weishaupt was a German thinker and

At least 9 people have been killed and 8 injured after heavy rain caused landslides in Limon Indanza Canton, Ecuador’s Morona Santiago Province on November 24, 2018. According to the National Risk and Emergency Management Service, 150 people were evacuated, 9 were killed, 8 injured and 5 remain missing. The landslides damaged 14 homes and destroyed